Francophile Friday: La Cure Gourmande, Paris

4.5.12

I'm all for medicinal chocolate, medicinal biscuits and medicinal lollies ~ mind you, being brought brandy by a Saint Bernard would be a hard act to follow. There's minimal risk of that in Paris, however, so let us self-prescribe with sweet abandon at La Cure Gourmande. Thanks to dear Virginia of Paris Through My Lens for inspiring my illustration today. Merci, ma chère, comme toujours.

And thanks to all the fine detail, I'm about to consult my Fanciful Pharmacopoeia of Sweet Somethings to see what will stop the fine lines dancing in front of my eyes. {Better in front of my eyes than around my eyes...} On the other hand, we could throw research to the winds and see what La Cure has to offer. {There are several in Paris and elsewhere in France, Belgium, Spain and 'autres pays' around the world.} Time for a quick wardrobe change then we're set. And on that note...

I looove this illo, Shell! La Cure should buy it from you (for beaucoup de euros, bien sur.) I drooled all over the vitrine of the shop in the Passage Jouffroy on my last visit—it was closed, but I could still admire their stack-'em-high displays and pretty pastel packaging.I'm gonna have to fight you for that fetching little shift, btw. :~} (Actually, you can have the dress if I can have that watch.)

These delighful shops are just magnets that draw you in, full of color and promises of sweet treats. I saw my first one in Seville and just about fell out. There are many in Paris now, the most recent at the corner of Rue de Rivoli and Rue St Roch. It certainly brightens up that spot!

What a yummy drawing! So many great details, and Kitty looks like she's in a happy sugar stupor. I've never been in one of these shops, but if they sell medicinal chocolates I'll be sure to visit one. Love that dress too. Wow!

I was admiring the drawing in this piece and thought I'd share this line from your cantankerous down under art critic Robert Hughs

"Drawing never dies, it holds on by the skin of its teeth, because the hunger it satisfies – the desire for an active, investigative, manually vivid relation with the things we see and yearn to know about – is apparently immortal."

That's a fabulous quote, PA. I can also relate it to my love of handwriting ~ there's some kind of intimate connection that's different from the one with a keyboard and mouse. {And I will be sure to stay tuned over at your place. All the best with the local goings-on there ~ somewhat perturbing.}

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